tradingview-chart-mcp vs fetch

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	tradingview-chart-mcp by ertugrul59	fetch by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 93	★ 85,748
30d uses	—	—
Score	47	76
Official	—	✓
Categories	Web ScrapingFinanceAI / LLM Tools	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity
Language	Python	TypeScript
Last commit	2 mo ago	this month

tradingview-chart-mcp · Summary

MCP server that captures TradingView chart images via Selenium with browser pooling for concurrent performance.

fetch · Summary

An MCP server that fetches web content and converts HTML to markdown, allowing LLMs to read web pages.

tradingview-chart-mcp · Use cases

Financial analysis platforms that need to display real-time TradingView charts
AI assistants providing market insights with visual chart data
Automated trading systems requiring chart image capture

fetch · Use cases

LLMs reading news articles and blogs
Content analysis of web pages
Retrieving information from public websites
Chunked reading of large web documents

tradingview-chart-mcp · Install

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ertugrul59/tradingview-chart-mcp
cd tradingview-chart-mcp

Create and activate virtual environment:

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # macOS/Linux
.venv\Scripts\activate  # Windows

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure environment variables:

Copy .env.example to .env
Add your TradingView credentials (TRADINGVIEW_SESSION_ID and TRADINGVIEW_SESSION_ID_SIGN)

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tradingview-chart-mcp": {
      "command": "/path/to/tradingview-chart-mcp/.venv/bin/python3",
      "args": ["/path/to/tradingview-chart-mcp/main.py"],
      "env": {
        "TRADINGVIEW_SESSION_ID": "YOUR_SESSION_ID_HERE",
        "TRADINGVIEW_SESSION_ID_SIGN": "YOUR_SESSION_ID_SIGN_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run the server:

python main_optimized.py  # Production with browser pooling
# or
python main.py  # Legacy version

fetch · Install

Installation

**Using uv (recommended)** No specific installation needed. Use uvx to run the server directly:

uvx mcp-server-fetch

**Using PIP** Install via pip:

pip install mcp-server-fetch

Then run as:

python -m mcp_server_fetch

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-fetch"]
    }
  }
}

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